The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-01-09
mAReAnnr MArnrn COMING nxRx
To Show Us the nIost Perfect Juliet the
World Has Yet Seen.


/ World Has Yet Seen.
Announcement was made in thege col
umns last Sunday morning that Mssager
Henderson Of the Academy of Music had
signed contracs with Manager Hill of the
Union Square Theatre in New York, for the
appearance in this sity shortly, of Margaret
| Mther, the wonderful actress who, for
months past has entArslled and delighted
immense audiences across the river. Mar
Henderson said to us that he had had some
/ difficulty in persuading Manager Hill to
consent to the arrangement, but he finally
| yielded; and the theatre loving people of
this city will be gratifed to know that Miss
Mather will begin her engagement in this
| city on Thursday of next week, the goth
inst, and remain till Saturday night. But
Miss Mather will Rot come alone. Manager
Hill will send with her the company that is
now supporting her, even to the supernu-
maries. She will bring with her, too, the
scenery, procured at an immense outlay of
money, that makes the scenic display at
the Union Square as gorgeous as her own
! acting is superb and strong. Even the
drop curtain at the Academy is to be. takcn
down to make room for the beautiful cur
tain beneath whose folds she now appears
in New York.
While in this city, Miss Mather will pre-
SAINT Romeo and Juliet, the tragic love
story for all the ages. Miss Mather is
born Juliet. She seems to have been made
for the part. She throws into the perfor-
nance fervor of love, and q strength of
passion before which the beautiful daughter
of theCspulets herself would have seemed
irsincere. No ac}ress has ever so inter-
preted the tender passion of the
interview between the lovers, at the balco.
ny of the palace of her father. No actress
has ever portrayed the awful despair of an
imperiled love as she wien she appeals to
the Cody ffiar to find an alternative for
death for her. Her frantic emotions as in
her chamber she contemplates the lotion
that makes her dead to all the world save
her Romeo, is appallingly real in awful, vet
natural, intensity; and she shows herself
the greatest of living actresses when. at the
end as her self-poisoned Romeo falls dead
at her feet, she plunges her dagger into
her own bosom to bear him company.
Add to the terrible perfection of her i'm
personation, her personal charms-for
Miss Mather is one of the most beautiful
women on the American stage-and YOU
have as perfect Juliet as even Shakes
peare's warm and delicate fancy could ever
have dreamed Of
The actors who are to support her here
are scarcely less great in their parts than
she is in hers. Her Romeo is as near a
perfect ideal as she is in her tenderer per-
Torrance and the rollickiDg Mercutio in
terests, with the splendors of his elocution.
scarcely less than does the leading lady
herself.
The mounting of the play Is in keeping
with the play itself. No Juliet ever made
love. from the porch of her palace. in such
mellow lovt-laden moonlight, or amid
such gorgeous surroundings. The balcony
scene surpasses all description of pen. It
is in perfect keeping with the tenderness,
and richness, and over flowing fullness of
the passion of the lovers who figure in it.
The perfect arrangement of light and
shadow upon the garden lend indesc1ible
effectiveness to the secret meeting. The
balcony scene is specially mentioned be-
cause 1t affords the largest opportunity for
scenic splendor. Every scene of the if
teen or more that are presented during the
evening is wonder of art and skill.
Manager Henderson is to congratulated
upon having concluded arrangements for
the reproduction of the performance in
this city. 1t will be the most charming
treat he has ever given the people of this
city. Mr.. F. G. Prescott, Manager Hills
business manager, will supervise the pre-
parations for the three nights perform
ance.